Socio-Religious Education of the Tèngka Tradition in the Madura Community

Abstract

The tèngka tradition that became one of Madura’s social norms contains behavioural values and is still inherent in their social life. They believe this tradition has created a peaceful, harmonious, humorous society. This paper aimed to reveal the values of socio-religious education contained in the tradition and how the internalization process is strongly internalized into the lives of the Madurese people. This study uses qualitative methods and data collection techniques in the form of interviews research with observations, documentation, interviews and literature studies. This study found that the tradition of tèngka did have wisdom values that are important to preserve, mainly as it contained Islamic teachings among the values of tèngkawere at-ta’âwun (mutual assistance), cooperation, social care, and hospitality. This study also concluded that as local wisdom, the tèngka tradition has a contributive value in the social life of the Madurese people, especially in creating a peaceful, harmonious, and prosperous society. This tradition survives and develops because members of the community carry out the process of internalization to the next generation in a personal-cognitive recognition, they also carried out in a collective-empirical-recognition way, and finally by incidental-delegation. There are two crucial implications of this study. First, this study provides an overview of socio-religious values in the tèngka tradition as one of the local wisdom of the Madurese people. Second, this study provides an overview of the pattern of preserving local wisdom in globalization.

Keywords

• tèngka, socio-religious, madura, aswaja